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Laid off workers may not qualify for quake scheme
More than 200 workers laid off from a Christchurch textile plant may not qualify for help through the Government's earthquake assistance package.
Carpet manufacturer closes plant, axes jobs
Earthquake hit carpet manufacturer Canterbury Spinners is shutting its Christchurch operation and axing 195 jobs.
Kiwi dollar may fall as Christchurch earthquake costs become known
The New Zealand dollar may extend its losses this week as the cost of the Christchurch earthquake becomes clearer.
Massive welfare overhaul proposed
Mothers with young babies and sick and disabled people on benefits would be forced to look for work under a proposed overhaul of NZ's welfare system, which would see all benefits replaced by a 'jobseeker payment'.
Key: Work-testing when child three makes sense
Prime Minister John Key says he is open to work-testing beneficiaries when their youngest child turns three.
After 120 knockbacks, where are the jobs?
Peter Milne has one question for a government advisory group that wants more beneficiaries to have to look for work: Where are the jobs?
Govt rules out cutting the dole
The Government won't consider reductions to main benefit levels including the sickness, invalid's, unemployment and domestic purposes benefits as part of any welfare overhaul recommended by the Welfare Working Group tomorrow.
Tapu Misa: So many positives in the life of a soldier
Secure job, training, no student loan, chance to see the world, how could any parent object?
Bombshell on way for beneficiaries
About 300,000 welfare beneficiaries who are judged capable of work will face a day of reckoning tomorrow with the release of a report.
Key 'disconnected' from average Kiwis - homeless coalition
John Key has been accused of being disconnected after saying that beneficiaries who resort to food banks do so out of their own "poor choices".
Food parcel families made poor choices, says Key
John Key says beneficiaries who resort to food banks do so out of their own "poor choices" rather than because they cannot afford food.
Pumpkin patch project under fire in Parliament
A Labour MP held up a pumpkin in Parliament today as the Government continued to face criticism over its Community Max welfare projects reported to have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars with little result.
English defends job scheme
The Govt is under fire over a scheme accused of wasting thousands of dollars funding a 1.6ha garden with one pumpkin in it.
The F words: fries, Facebook, free speech and fidelity?
These days, there are other 'f words' causing issues - Facebook, free speech and fidelity.